I’ve seen a lot of the blue lines animation when Liking a post or posting something new. The numbers at the bottom of the page don’t seem like anything’s wrong.
The best I can tell on this is when you click submit a lot of things happens...
1) The message is scanned for viruses / malware before being saved
2) The IP address is captured from where you are posting from
3) The operating system and browser you are using is captured (it calls an external database to give us that info)
4) depending on the number of posts you have it scans if your registered email address or IP address are listed on the StopForumSpam list
5) Saving the message to the database
So all these things can slow down posting. Since 3 of them are external calls to servers outside ours we are at the mercy of those servers. I do know that #3 has been having issues off and on. They have lowered the timeout now as it use to be 10 seconds. Now I think its down to 2 seconds. so if they get no reply in 2 seconds things move along. I think 2) 3) and 4) can slow things down the most because of the external calls. I think this is why we see this blue line delay from time to time and then it corrects itself with out and intervention on our part.
Also with #1 if the server is busy scanning something else the new post goes to the back of the que. So there could be other things it scans before it scans that message. We are running he basic version of this package, I dont want to pay $45 a month just to be able to change the priority.
Of course these are all guesses on my part as the logging really does not tell you anything.
The wild part about all of this is when the site is operating normal we are considered one of the faster Xenforo sites online. We are great 99.93% of the time... its that damn .07% that aggravates me to no end.
I feel like Scotty from Star Trek at times, and I swear I am giving her all she's got captain!
